专题24高中高考英语语法填空(原卷版)

专题24 全国卷语法填空
基础巩固
1.阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

As prices and building costs keep rising, the "doityourself" (DIY) trend in the U.S. ________ (continue) to grow. "We needed furniture for our living room," says John Ross, "and we just find it hard ________ (pay) for what we need. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs." John got married six ________ (month) ago, and in mon with many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high.________ (take) a 2week course for $280 at a night school, now the Rosses build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a fulltime job at home as well________ in a shoe making factory. Last month, he ________ (receive) a car repair bill for $420. "I was ________ (deep) upset about it that my car repairs cost too much. So I decided to be________ doityourselfer ".
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything________ can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you are interested in "doityourself", you can go to DIY classes. And for those ________ don't have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
2.阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

The year was 1956. My first husband and I and our ninemonthold baby, Pam, moved from St. Louis to Fort Worth, Texas. We found a________ (love) apartment and settled in quickly. One chilly morning, I ________ (head) for the Laundromat （洗衣店）. I turned ________ the engine of our 1953 Chevy ________ (warm) up the car and put Pam in her car seat,________ back then was in the front seat. I locked the car door. ________ I put the basket of laundry in the back seat and locked the other door.________(sudden), I realized I had locked the________ (key) and my baby in the car and locked________ (I) out. I immediately went into panic mode. My neighbors had both gone to work, and there were no cell phones back then. As I looked up the street, I saw a red Ford pickup ________ (drive) toward me. The driver stopped when he saw me crying and waving my hands. The man on the passenger side of the truck got out and said, "I have a car just like this one; let me see if my key will open the door." It did! I have told so many people that God was the passenger in a red Ford pickup in October 1956.
3.阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I travel a lot for work and sometimes I end ________ staying behind to clean up the loose ends while my project team heads back home.
We were in Boston meeting with a business partner of ________ (we) and we wrapped up early. Everyone was able to catch ________ (flight) home, except me. So I decided to go to dinner. Because I was not very familiar with ________I was in Boston, I ________ (hire) a driver to pick me up before I walked out the meeting hall.
My driver asked for my destination. I responded by asking him to pick the restaurant he would like to go to for dinner. We stopped at a local seafood place
and then I invited that man ________ had eaten nothing to join me for dinner. I hate eating alone and could not stand knowing he was sitting in the car in the parking lot waiting for me to finish up. I definitely caught him off guard.
We had a ________(relax) dinner time, after which he and I formed a great friendship. I learned a lot about life in his home country and it opened my eyes even more ________ (bee) grateful for small things.
Doing something nice for others only makes this world a much ________ (happy) place. How I wish everyone could reach out and touch just one person! In the end, we would all be touched by the gift of ________(kind) !
4.阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Cloning is an approach to ________(make) an exact copy of another animal or plant, which, in our daily life, happens quite often. It has two major uses. ________ is that gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones. The other is that it is ________(value) for medical research on animals. The process of cloning is a difficult task ________(undertake).
The first successful clone, Dolly the sheep, ________(arouse) worldwide ________(curious) and concern because of its scientific and ethical implications(影响). She was the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA ________(take) from an adult cell. Dolly's appearance raised a storm of ________(object)and had a great effect ________the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions on it. However, scientists still wonder ________ cloning will help or harm us and where it is leading us.。